What Makes Something a Computer? 

Learning Intention: 

• Students will explore the differences between hardware and software and their functions. 

Success Criteria:

• The student will be able to identify devices as either hardware or software and explain the devices function.  

Vocabulary: 

• Input

• Output

• Process

• Store

• Hardware

• Software

Engage:  

Who can tell me the four things that all computers do? 

Review Computers Functions

• Input

• Output

• Process

• Store

Input and Output Devices

• What do you think input means? 

• What do you think output means?

• What parts of the computer would you think are input devices?

• What parts of the computer would you think are output devices? 

Input and Output Devices Chart

• Let's complete the Technology and see if we can make a list of what we have learned.